Film nominees unveiled
BEVERLY HILLS - "American Beauty," a dark satire about a suburban middle-class family, captured eight Oscar nominations on Tuesday, including for best picture, topping the list of 1999 films selected for Hollywood's most prestigious awards.
Seeing dark side of American in films
BERLIN - Chinese director Zhang Yimou's romantic film "The Road Home" drew loud applause at the Berlin film festival on Tuesday, gaining recognition after being rejected last year for competition in the Cannes festival.
Seeing dark side of American in films
BERLIN - Tom Cruise's new film that showed here on Monday was the latest in a series of dark self-portraits of America shown at the Berlin film festival.
Create your own label at wine making club
A HOME-made bottle of plonk may not beat the most expensive wines now available on Shanghai's supermarket shelves in terms of quality, but it could still become your most satisfying tipple.
Marriages of inconvenience
ABOUT 42 per cent of married couples in China are either "unsure" whether they would choose the same partner, or categorically would not pick the same person, if they had the chance to do it all again.
Foot, fist and morality: Taekwondo
WITH a striking yell, a slender figure in white brings her right foot squarely down on the target. "That's typical Taekwondo," said Ju Yunjie, a sophomore of Shanghai Jiaotong University. "I practise it every week," she said, with a contented smile.
Fat wieners, but thin on flair
CHINA has iridescent, figure-hugging qipaos and Japan its kimono. The Brits, well our traditional costume - sequined outfits of the East End's pearly kings and queens for example - may be anything but sexy, but at least we can lay claim to the miniskirt, thanks to pioneer fashion designer of the '60s, Mary Quant.
Listing
Nominees for the 20th annual "Rrazzie Awards," the flip sidde of the Oscars: WORST PICTURE "Big Daddy" "The Blair Witch Project" "The Haunting" "Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace" "Wild Wild West" WORST ACTOR Kevin Costner, "For Love of the Game, "Message in a Bottle" Kevin Kline, "Wild Wild West" Adam Sandler, "Big Daddy" Arnold Schwarzenegger, "End of Days" Robin Williams, "Bicentennial Man" and "Jakob the Liar" WORST ACTRESS Heather Donahue, "The Blair Witch Project" Melanie Griffith, "Crazy in Alabama" Milla Jovovich, "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc" Sharon Stone, "Gloria" Catherine Zeta-Jones, "Entrapment","The Haunting" WORST SCREEN "COUPLE" Pierce Brosnan and Denise Richards,""The World is Not Enough" Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, "Entrapment" Kevin Kline and Will Smith, "Wild Wild West" Jake Lloyd and Natalie Portman, "Star Wars: Episode I" Lili Taylor and Catherine Zeta-Jones, "The Haunting" WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Sofia Coppola, "Star Wars: Episode I" Salma Hayek, "Dogma," "Wild Wild West" Kevin Kline (as a prostitute), "Wild Wild West" Juliette Lewis, "The Other Sister" Denise Richards, "The World Is Not Enough" WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jar-Jar Binks (voiced by Ahmed Best), "Star Wars: Episode I" Kenneth Branagh, "Wild Wild West" Gabriel Byrne, "End of Days," "Stigmata" Jake Lloyd, "Star Wars: Episode I" Rob Schneider, "Big Daddy"
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